The Sun. — London, England, 1838-11-19 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. In Saturday's Times there was inserted a letter from our correspondent at Constantinople, containing, amongst other matters of importance, a statement to which the well-informed writer himself appeared to attach credit— namely, that the Court of St. Petersburgh had recom menced those experiments of intimidation upon the Sultan Mahmoud, which on former occasions have been attended with consequences so ruinous to the best interest of Tur key, and so alarming for the equilibrium and the repose of Europe. It is asserted, that with a view to recall the Turkish Government to a sense of what it has to appre hend from Russia, the Ambassador of the latter Power has sent in an official note threatening that the Emperor Nicho las will consider " the ratcation by Turkey of the treaty lately signed with England as a formal declaration of war against himself." We, at least, have no objection to see the question of Turkish independence, 'combined as it is in the present instance with that of the national rights, consistency, spirit, and honour of Great Britain, brought thus plainly to a point. That Russia should take the above desperate course with regard to Turkey for the frustration of an object the success of which would be not merely injurious, but utterly fatal to those views of conquest and aggrandizement which she has fondly cherished and anted upon systematically, at all times and seasons, for the last seventy years, is not very difficult to imag ine. The tr ea ty between G rea t B r i ta i n an d t h e Gran Seignor places Russia in a predicament of extreme danger ; and there are no means of extrication, however desperate, which she would not, and will not, have recourse to. A menace to Turkey is the most obvious thing in the world. That the bullying note above referred to will be followed up by military and naval demonstrations, we have little doubt ; but that either such threats or such demonstrations should induee the Sultan to withdraw his fleet from its deliberate junction with that of England, or his councils from a resolute and strict adherence to that course of defensive policy, on the necessity as well as advantage of which, it is quite obvious that both the Turkish Government and that of England must have thoroughly made up their minds before the late treaty came to receive the signature of their respective negotiators, is in our judgment wholly incredible. Neither the signature of the (so-called com mercial, but in substance political) treaty between Great Britain and the Cabinet of the Seraglio, nor the simulta neous junction of their fleets, is to be looked upon as an initiatory measure—a consideration which is of vast im portance. Taken together, these decisive steps of the two Governments are to be regarded not as the index of a policy under discussion, but as the result of a policy al ready settkd, as " proof of a foregone conclusion," and of a purpose complete and irrevocable. With the treaty of Unkiar 'Skelessi before these:two contracting parties, they must have set their hands to this new bond of alliance in a state of mind prepared for all the consequences of an in strument whereby, in the face of Europe, and of Asia, they flung down the gauntlet to the Russian despot, and announced to him that his reign of tyrannical en croachment was thenceforth at an end. The compact signed by Lord Ponsonby and the Turkish Minister was, we repeat, equivalent to a public declaration that both parties knew they were then challenging the unappeasable resentment and hostility of Russia ; that they were aware of the inevitable fruits of such an act ; that they were jointly ready to resist what otherwise they must both have been frantic to provoke —an appeal to arms by the Empe ror Nicholas, proclaimed in some such form as that whereof our correspondent spoke on Saturday, viz., an official note from the Russian Minister, that his master would resist the treaty as " a declaration of war by Turkey." What we have, therefore, to observe upon this matter is, thae if the treaty be good in itself for the combined interests of Turkey and of Great Britain, so much more imperative is it upon Lord P a l merston and his colleagues that a treaty so just and politic in its objects should be vigorously acted on and enforced by its framers. When we twice on late occasions avowed our approval of this and of the treaty with Austria, and declared as independent Engliehmen our satisfaction at the occurrenc e of events so new, and of a character so unexampled, in the recent diplomacy of Great Britain, our design, we need hardly say, was anything but to pay a gratuitous compliment to her present Ministers. It was to show the world, and Russia more especially, that there was nothing to hope for a fifekin enemy in our party or political differences here at home, but that she would have to fight with the whole English nation. It was to encourage Lord Palmerston in his first transition from an abject and shuffling policy towards unfriendly Powers to one of a more manly and becoming character—to convince him that in such an amendment of his course he would have the support as against Russia even of those who most de spised the composition of that profligate Ministry of which he formed part, and who most reprobated and dreaded its pernicious influence upon the institutions of the Monarchy. Our further and more specific motive was to impress upon Lord Palmerston the cruel trea chery aed base poltroonery of failing to enforce in de fence of Turkey the maintenance and provisions of a treaty which he had so long been prevailing on her to sign : and after engaging her, for British objects in an act which must bring upon her the fiercest vengeance of Russia, to leave her in her day of need without effectual protection from this country. We call upon Lord Palmer ston, therefore, by every consideration of humanity, honour, and good faith, to afford Turkey prompt and liberal aid against the aggressions of Nicholas. We claim from him, on the part of the people of England, that he will not ex pose them to the disgrace of shrinking from the enforcement of compacts which he has signed in their name—that if Russia threatens Turkey because of her alliance with Great Britain, he will pledge Great Britain to chastise the threat ener for his insolence. The East has already witnessed too much of English disregard and indifference to her own plighted faith : we can afford no additional examples. Let the Queen's Government therefore at once extend and invigorate the activity of the dockyards, put on more hands, prepare more ships, open a rendezvous for seamen at every port, send out reinforcements of sailors, and an increase of guns, if necessary, to every British squadron in the east and west, where the crews of our men-of-war are notoriously so feeble that they can hardly work the ships without harassing the men to death, let alone fight them against a well-appointed enemy—where the lower decks, which, properly speaking, constitute the most formidable battery on board them, are but half armed or altogether without artillery, and this from motives of a miserable, pinching, self-destroying, popularity-hunting parsimony '. but in such preparation s let it not, finally, be forgotten that the wooden walls of England may as well be broken up and burnt as intrusted-to the care of unfledged members of the Whig Aristocracy —minions of a Court where favouritism rages with such extreme indecency, or creatures of mere first lord patronage lifted over the heads of weather-beaten vete rans, to aggrandize the numerous relations of an intriguing and peremptory jobber. We repeat, therefore, that if the Ministers of the Crown who planned and carried the Turkish and Austrian treaties do not now bring forward the armed force of England to aid their execution, they are infinitely more degraded and contemptible than if they had never stirred at all, or made any diplomatic overtures whatever, of which the result in that case must be to in vite the vengeance of Russia upon our allies for acts in which the British Government is too selfish and cowardly to support them. Sure we are, that if Turkey be now de terred by any exhibition of Russian violence from fulfilling to the letter the engagements just contracted with Great Britain, mankind to all ages will rest the blame of such infirmity, not upon the shoulders of the unfortunate Marahoud, who relied on us for the means of resisting his oppressor, but on those of the Whig Government of England, which first seduced, and then will have deserted and betrayed him. There is not an English man of ever such inveterate Radicalism in his views of domestic policy who would dream of withholding the most ample supplies to the Queen's Ministers for the commencement or prosecution of a war against the semi barbarous, but insidious, Court of Russia. There is not a faction in the whole British empire, save that unredeemed and Conneincorrigiblethe one which has so long been i ns ti gate d b y O'll and Popish priest s o f Ireland, that would not receive to-morrow, with hearty exultation, the tidings that to facilitate the execution of our commercial treaties in the Euxine, we had signed to-morrow morning a triple political alliance for defensive purposes between Austria, Turkey, and Great Britain. The game is in Lord Palmer ston's bands, if he can but play it. Austria has no less reason than Turkey herself to fear the aggrandisement of Russia south of the Danube, and by her position, organi zation, and resources, she has ten times the means enj o y e d by Turkey of turning such advantages to the discomfiture We say to Lord Palmerston— of the common enemy. strike now, or never.—Times. Our readers who are interested in local government upon the representative principle, will be amply gratified by a perusal of the important appeal case, tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, against a county rate made by the Jus tices of Middlesex on the 0 7th of October, 1836. From our report it will be seen that the Judges unanimously quashed the rate. We believe the sum borrowed for the purposes of building the Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, amounts to about one hundred and fifty or sixty thousand pounds. From the argument of counsel it appears that this expense should have been defrayed by a special county rate or rates ; that the Legislature intended by the 13th section of the Lunatic Act, the 9th Gco. IT., cap. 40, that the Justices should consider the propriety of di viding the special rate or rates so assessed between the 7N4 tosimirwilek-rent and their respective landlords ; .....ut_tilerttriM-kidlesex Justices have contrived to defeat ''fblurt 14 Llidtionof4e Legislatur e b y never assessing a special -zi : county-iatd in veered at all. W e h ope t h e i mmediate and . 4.( (:. ear - 4,littiAtiolo the various m e t ropo li tan vestr i es will i-7 be at once directed, and in a businesslike manner, effectu ally to take those steps which will permanently secure to themselves a control over the finances of the county, and which the present opportunity is sure to present to them in the consequences which must ensue from the decision of the Judges on this important appeal. It at one step places greatly in advance the cause of Middlesex County Reform, by showing not only the gross injustice of the present managers of the county finances, but their incompetence to understand the important subject of taxing the rate-payers. The increase on the county-rate this year in Middlesex, we understand, will be between six and seven thousand pounds. —Morning Chronicle. It affords us singular gratification to witness the unani mity of spirit whic prevails in the breasts of British sub jects when the honour, the dignity, or the interests of Great Britain are assailed or even menaced by any foreign power. On Friday we had the pleasure to congratulate our readers upon seeing the Times, our antipodes in politics, casting aside at once all party feeling, and entering with becoming magnanimity into a liberal and generous acknowledgment that Ministers have played A wise, prudent, and energetic game in Turkey and Austria, and that the bold attitude which we declared that the Ministers must henceforth assume towards Russia must be followed up—that is, at "moutls of the cannon ;" she must retrace her steps—if the Autocrat should be so blind and so infatuated with his position and supposed power as not to listen to the dictates of prudence and justice. The fact is, we have,from thefirst hour of our connexion with Russia, shown too much kind ness—too much favour—toomuch forbearance towards her; and presuming upon this jbrbearance, she now dares to assume the presumptuous attitude which she has lately exhibited. Herat has hitherto held out a most unequal cutest against the Persian arms, aided and abetted by Russia. Herat is the turnpike-gate to Hindostan ;in the hands of Persia, Central Asia will soon become a province of Russia. We have been over and over again assured that the siege of Herat had been abandoned by the Shah of Persia ; that he had returned to Teheran, and thrown himself into the arms of Mr. M'Niell and the British Go vernment. We now find that those statements were all fabrications, got up, no doubt, intentionally to deceive the public. Instead of the siege of Herat having been raised, " Kermann Shah, with 1,200 followers, had left the place and gone over to the besiegers ; and the Herattees, reduced to the lust extremity, could not hold out another week," and that Mr. M'Niell, notwithstanding all his threats to leave the Persian camp, was still there. We must confess, that after the arrogant and pompous boasting we have seen in some of the papers of the fall of Herat, and again of the retreat of the Persians, and of Mr. M'Niell being here and then being there—at Teheran one day, and expected the next at Constantinople—we are not surprised to find that " the prolongation of Mr. M'Niell's stay, after his solemn declaration that he would leave it (the camp), in the event of his not receiving, before the expiration of ten days, positive assurance that the Shah bad raised the siege, had exc'ted much surprise among the Persians ; and led them to infer that it was in tended only as a threat to intimidate them." The Bengal Ilurkaru, of the 27th of August, says—" should Dost Mahomed hear of our alleged intention to dethrone him, before Major Todd is clear of the Affghan territory, we ex pect to hear of his detention." We should the rather ex pect to hear of his head being taken off, for the Affghans are not very nice or particular in what they do, and human blood has flowed for ages in those regions ; when exaspe rated they care not what they do. He would not be the first Ambassador who had lost his head. It is only on the side of Asia that we consider Russia as formidable ; for in Europe, ten thousand English soldiers, and a correspond ing fleet of bro - adsides, would settle her pretensions to autocracy in less time than she could dispatch additional forces to Poland—still ripe for insurrection and national independence—or an adequate fleet to - Varna, to contend with the thunder of British cannon. In India, we trust that the same fate awaits her unjust attempts at domina tion ; but the circumstances are so different as regards mutual position between the East and the West, that the Government of this country ought to lose no time in preparing for the worst. We hate and detest war, both in the abstract, and as a trial of strength unbecoming of civilized nations ; but there are times and seasons when it becomes not the interests of a national honour and national safety only to wage war, but the interests of humanity and civilization also ; and if there ever was a time more than another which required this painful inter ference, it has now arrived. The Russian aggressions are innumerable—the Russian acts of cruelty are not to be heard of in any capital of Europe, without a shudder—her breaches of solemn treaties are a libel upon the manhood and liberality of European feeling—her intrigues for under mining the power of England too palpable to be spoken of and doubted—and we therefore say again that if ever ajus tifieation could be found for the painful alternative of war between one country and another, now is the time for Eng land to call Russia to order, not for attempts on India only, but for the treaty of Skelessi—for her breach of the agreement with regard to the Dardanelles during the Russian and Turkish war, and above all her unjustifiable massacre of the Poles, when they were fighting for the rights and privileges which she had solemnly covenanted to preserve for them. Let Lord Palmerston have no fears about him with regard to the language which he ought to hold out to Russia. Delenda est Carthago—is the motto of every British-born subject on this point ; and he will greatly fail in credit to himself, and justice to his country, if he do not act upon it. —Morning Advertiser. The important intelligence a hich appeared in our co lumns of Saturday, from our correspondent at Constanti nople, of the re-establishment of the Russian ascendancy at the Sublime Port, and the consequent recall of the Turkish fleet which had been cruising in company with our own, must excite in the mind of every reflecting and patriotic Englishman the most serious apprehensions for the result of our foreign policy in the East. It is certain the Sultan has all -along prefered, and would probably still prefer, the alliance with England to the treacherous friendship of the Czar. But upon snch a paltry and pusillanimous Government as England is afflicted with at present he can place no reliance, and Russia having fast bound him, while the genius of our foreign policy was asleep, in the bondage of the treaty of Unkiar 'Ske lessi, he must do the work of a Russian vassal or take the consequences of disobedience. The temporary ap pearance of independence which he exhibited has only served to show in a stronger light the abject slavery of the chief of the once mighty Ottoman em pire, now crouching at the footstool of the Calmuck Emperor. But this extension of the power of Russia is, of course, only an additional proof of the " inherent weakness" of that gigantic empire ! Like any other satrap of the Russian throne, the Sultan hears, trembles, and obeys the imperial ukase, recalls his fleet from its inter dicted junction with that of England, and hastens, by the alacrity of his present submission, to atone for the crime of a transient display of spirit. In the mean time all the " warlike activity" of Lord Palmerston is exhausted upon the " buccaneering war" which our Ministry wage upon the coast of Spain. Only the other day the British broadsides were protecting the Valencian ruffians who were cutting the throats of defenceless people, instead of marching out to meet the enemy in the field. British arms and ammunition are supplied to the adventurer Mu nagorri and his raggamuffin brigands who, under the aus pices of Lord John Hay and our Christino allies, are to enter Biscay as a " neutral force" equally opposed to Christinos and Carlists I It is upon such a disreputable —such a thoroughly absurd and despicable scheme to cajole the Basque people, whom British steel failed to con quer, that the zeal and " genius" of our Foreign Minister arc employed, while Cracow, Circassia, and Turkey are left to their fate, and the power that has already ex cluded the British flag from the Black Sea prepares to drive it from the Bosphorus. It now turns out to be alto gether untrue that the Russianised Shah of Persia has been beaten and driven from before Herat. By the last accounts that place was not expected to hold out a week longer. The clouds gathering towards our Indi in fron tiers are indeed thick and gloomy. It may be some time before the storm will burst which is to carry devastation through the provinces of our eastern empire ; but burst when it w ill, it i s not b y the talents and energy of the g " e statesmen" who all the now interests throw evil of the Grefatal Britainspe l I that of t t h h e e i r cala mitous consequences of such an explosion are to be averted. At this moment, a hile the military ambition of France is i G n open a n d p ro fli gate contempt of a solemn promise to ou; rm N e l os e irg d en i t ie e md r , r m a bi n nu e et Mean—w e tcial w au l n : l e l e e vh t ee h r e_ w danger et c t ta o hue t sr h ee e La C te a r n d overnment, firmly establishing itself on the P las Durham a o us r wr e hbh s aci ne f o Intl h h ae e storm of S c ythi an war rolls on nearer and the all to our eastern possessions, how is the Premier of England engaged? Acting the part of a dangling and enervated courtier, revelling in unreflecting enjoyment upon his couch of roses, where the duties of offic e are n eg l ec t e d— where the cares an of empi re are Unfelt—where di the v o i ce o f pu bli c indignation d the cirtyelyoieg u p on the of publicstres s are unlik e un h ee d e d or un and pure-minded Q simplicity an d i nexper i ence of a ea youngrd. Queen the chief of the British Cabinet, at this momento,usancdrislies, establishes his Epicurean country presents eater of falling ro,tfa n o t suchem pi re anothert o it s fate.abod eTahteWhiisntdosryoroCf athstisle England : ga m m a e y o it f never present a similar one! The last des f p t e h r e a m te , example of a courtier Prime 24 the occupants of Downing -street—of such o at least, as have any public activity—i s the new schem e of profli gate agitation which O'Connell is working f or th e w hin and himself in Ireland. In the mean time, timid and tem porising Conservatives, who wish to keep down the expres sion of a high tone of Protestant and constitutional feeling in the people, say, " Let them alone—when the pear is ripe, it will fall. Aye, but while the pear is ripening, we fear the State itself will become rotten, and the 4441(10116d THE SUN, LONDON, MOVDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1838. interests of the noblest and greatest empire on earth become past saving.—Morning Herald. • We published on Saturday the report of the Committee of the Irish Orange Society to a general meeting of that body in Dublin. We consider that document to be of considerable importance, end although not free from ob jection on account of a certain declamatory vehemence and oratorical exaggeration, which are perhaps national characteristics, it may be regarded as a manly declaration extorted from the Protestant party in Ireland by a sense of suffering and wrong. We quite agree with them that of their silence advantage has been taken, and that their calm submission to authority has been made the pretext for treating them with something more than tyrannous neglect. Such is the generosity, such the justice of those who at present administer the Government of this country! No one can read the speech made to the House of Lords by the Duke of Wellington, when introducing to that House the Romanist Emancipation Bill, without feeling convinced that he was determined after having made that great change to administer the Executive Government so that the Romanists should have no reason to exult in having obtained a victory over the Protestants. The ob ject of the Prime' Minister of that day was to make the Romanists politically equal with the Protestants, but no more. Practically they had begun, even before that time, to exercise a superior authority, through the agency of an excited populace, which superior authority the House - of Commons, owing to its opinion on the question of Romanist Emancipation, would not concur in suppressing. It was calculated that the Emancipation Act having passed, no such difficulty would continue to exist in the House of Commons. The calculations in this matter were over thrown, partly by a more stern and fixed resentment on the part of the opponents of emancipation than hal been rec koned upon, but far more by the sudden bursting out of a revolutionary spirit in Europe, with such an overwhelming violence as not even the most sagacious could have expected, and such as even now, when we can look calmly back upon the event, seems utterly incomprehensible. But the storm came, and for a time swept down all before it. In France it shattered a dynasty ; in the Netherlands it rent the kingdom in twain ; in Great Britain it overthrew the old re presentative system, and elevated to the direction of the new democratic power a party hostile in spirit and by habit to the long-established institutions of the land. Of this poli tical tempest, which flung all things into confusion, the Romanists, with hateful treachery and base iegratitude, took advantage to violate every engagement., expressed or implied, under which their emancipation had been obtained, and to set on foot a tyrannous persecution of the persons and the institutions to which they had declared that eman cipation would bind them for ever by the tics of respect, and the remembrance of abolished political distinctions. While the leaders of the revolutionary storm in Great Bri tain remained in office, this Romanist tyranny was in some degree confronted ; but when these leaders were under mined by the intrigues of base inferiors, and these inferiors consenting to become the tools of the revolutionary body, which they were incapable of directing, by that degrading bargain obtained the reins of the Executive, then Romanist tyranny raged in Ireland without control, and to this day that monstrous tyranny is paramount, while a paltry pup pet in Dublin Castle represents what ought to be the Protestant Government of Great Britain. This Romanist tyranny, while it wields the Executive with exclusive at tention to Romanist interests, makes war upon the Protes tants and upon Protestant institutions by popular agitation, which agitation again is directed and kept alive by associ ations which are formed and drilled for action with some thing like military activity and vigilance. The consequence has been that during the years in which the Constitution has been so changed that ev er ythi ng i n l eg i slation and go vernment depends upon the popular impression, nothing almost has been heard of from Ireland but manifestations of Romanist popular discoatent, eminently calculated to create the desired impression in Eneland on their side, while of the Protestant people of Ireland it must be con fessed that little or nothing has been heard. Under some views of policy, which we certainly do not think well cal culated for the time, and for the circumstances with which Irish Protestants have had to contend, they have been kept in the back ground, while the Romanists have been allowed to thrust themselves forward with multitudinous clamour as if they were Ireland. This, the Committee of the Orange Society declare, can by the Protestants of Ireland no longer be silently borne. They complain that— " The Protestants of Ireland have been so long silent under their grievances, that these grievances are treated as non existent. The policy of quiescence enforced on them by their leaders, and pushed to the extent of a compromise with evil, inculcates it as a duty to suffer without resistance, and the absence of reaction is adduced by our enemies as an evidence of the absence of oppression. We were told that our long, suffering and endurance would earn for us extraneous sym pathy, but our very patience has been made a proof that sym pathy is uncalled for. The experiment of concession and quiescence has been pushed to the uttermost, and its inefficiency for good is an established result. If ever a system has been allowed to fully dcvelope its affects, the system of concession has been allowed to do so by the Protestants of Ireland." These are bitter truths, and we trust that the Protes tants of England, to whatever political party they may belong, will not shut their ears to truths so important, be cause they come with the name of Or ange" stamped upon them, which name it has been the policy of the Romanists and their tools to mark out to public hatred. We own that we have considerable doubt—sb far as England is con cerned—that it is judicious to make this Protestant mani festation under the name of the Orange Society, against which—however unjustly and unreasonably—a prejudice exists in this country. But it seems there are reasons peculiar to Ireland--reasons too which are in close con nection with a brave and honourable spirit—reasons spring ing out of a hatred of even apparent and supposititious disingenuousness and delusion—which influence the leaders of th Protestant people to adhere to this old designation. It may be asked what are the specific grievances of which the Irish Protestants complain ? Let the Committee of the Orange Society answer the question : " The Protestant institutions—the Protestant people of this country, are in process of extirpation under the double in fluence of violent aggression and timid shrinking from de fence. There is no civil or religious right whose enjoyment is left undisturbed—no constitutional privilege which can be exercised with impunity—no duty whose fulfilment does not incur pains and penalties—the rights of property, whether of landlord or tenant, are too often but nominal—the exercise of our religion is anathematized—the performance of its rights disturbed, and its professors followed even to the grave with the bitter persecution of Romish intolerance. The prosecutors and witnesses in our criminal courts become the objects of out rage or assassination ; and intimidation, extending its influence to the jury -box, makes the law itself the best shield for even the avowed assassin : the exercise of the elective franchise is con trolled by the brutal violence of a sanguinary mob, who visit Opposition to their will with the penalty of death; in the Le gislature bold and unblushing Romish perjury breaks through the feeble protection destined to shield our Protestant institu tions, and the Executive, groaning under the despotism of a ferocious priesthood, have discarded the repression and punish ment of crime from the number of their duties." Who will deny that a large body of the people suffering under such grievances as these ought to speak out against the treacherous tyranny which oppresses them ? What is their crime ? They are Protestants. T hey live under a Government which is, de jure, " essentially Protestant," but de facto, and through the perfidy of those who lu admi ster the G over n men t, it i s a system o f Romanist in tolerance. To one monstrous clause in the catalogue of the grievances set forth by the Protestants we beg particular [attention. Under the existing system " the law itself is the best shield for even the avowed " assassin." Herein lies the great abuse, so far as the se curity of Protestant life in Ireland is concerned. It is not that the forms of law are neglected, but the forms of law are abused to the screening of the cull rit. It has now gown into a proverb upon the Assizes in Ireland, that thefts and common assaults are punished fairly enough ; but murder—cool savage murder--stalks through the land with absolute impunity ! This is not the result of neglecting to prosecute, but of affording facilities for the escape of those prosecuted, through an abuse of the forms of law. Into the history of these abuses we shall take another opportunity of entering ; the appalling fact is, how -1 ever, as stated in the extract we have just given —the law itself is now the best shield for the avowed assas sin. Under such circumstances—circumstances which are leading rapidly to a weakening of the Protestant people by emigration, and by the we ar i ness and vexation of spirit of those who remain, it seems to us to be natural that the Protestants of Ireland should combine in a defensive confederation. The object of their institution they proclaim to be the exercise of the right of self-defence. They are not the aggressive party. They unite to repel aggression. The Government which ought to protect them abandons them to the fury of their enemies. They feel, therefore, that a necessity is cast upon them to defend themselves, and that s nee their enemies conspire, they must combine. The persecution of Government can scarcely be greater than it is, and of such a Government it is likely to be less, when boldly confronted and firmly withstood. We give our applause to the earnest zeal of the Protestants of Ireland, and our counsel to them is to Proceed with firmness, but still with seriousness and caution, an opportunity 'tndtotak to trip them p _ take goodcareles u tthey mn a o ff r oridngPost. theerafty enemy BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON.—Bythe official do cument just printed agreably to the Parliamentary order of the number of stamps issued for the different newspapers, those for Bell's Life in London were during the last half year end ing the oth of September, 537,000, namely, In the month of April 90,000 Ditto May 85,000 Ditto June 116,000 Ditto July 82,000 Ditto Aug ust 80,000 Ditto September 84,000 Thus showing the average sale of each Publication of Bell's Life in London to have been 20,633 copies. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TlMES.—Amongst the various schemes which have latterly been concocted on the Paris Stock Exchange, there is one of a singular nature directed against the East India Company in this country. This scheme, which is characterized by the French Papers as " very ingenious," has for object the institution and pursuit of legal proceed ings for the recovery of what is termed the " Succession Bennet," consisting, it may be presumed, of the property of some Frenchman of that name, who dying in the Indies in testate, his effects were taken possession of by the Com pany, and are still held, whether in default of heirs whose claims have not been, or could not be, legally estab lished, or upon what other plea, does not appear. The prize thus held, and to be contended for, is said to be of the enormous value of 200,000,000 francs, or about 8,000,0001. Th e j o i n t- s t oc k a ssoc i a ti on f orme d to dispute it with the East India Company sets out with the capital of 125,000 francs only, or 5,0001. in shares of 100 francs each, which, in case of success, will entitle the holders to proportionate interest in twenty times the amount of the capital risked, which being 2,500,000 francs only, seems a very niggardly proportion of the immense sum of 200,000,000 francs at stake, falling. to the lot of the shareholders, and to be played for at their expense. In this instance the modest projectors propose to take some thing more than the lion's share. One of the paper 3 remarks upon the capital, that for so large an object it was too insignificant, and suggests the expediency of doubling it, reserving to the Managers the power of distributing, " gratuitously, one-half of the (new) shares among influen tial personages in England ;" otherwise, it is observed, so powerful a Lody as the East India Company must gain the day. The confusion in the Paris Share-market appears to be on the increase. As the discount on Shares became more considerable, the Companies got into discredit, and quarrels broke out between the shareholders, projectors, and mana gers. Efforts were not wanting among those papers exclu sively devoted to stock and share concerns to reconcile differences and cheer the desponding shareholders, who are gravely admonished that schemes after all are an affair of chance, in which the best calculator gains, and the less skil ful (maladroit) or unlucky is sure to lase. In a statement made of the situation of share Companies about a year ago, it appeared that out of 380 there were 136 of which the shares were at a premium or rising in price, 68 on the decline and 76 either at par or without business. Since that time it is stated not more than 40 or 50 projects have been esta blished with an effective capital ; but more than 200 had been started, and shares issued, and would continue to be issued, until their absolute dissolution. Some grievous mistakes had been committed there, as Weed there have been here, in estimates of the cost of railrdads. The projected railroad to Versailles by the left bank of the Seine was undertaken by a Company upon the basis of an outlay drawn up by engineers of 4,000,000 f. only. By way of greater certainty the capital of the association was fixed, however, at 8,000,0001. The whole of this capital has now been expended, and the Directors have declared that no less than 7,000,000 f. more will be necessary. Under these circumstances the enterprise has been suspended, and must so remain, unless the shareholders can be prevailed upon to consent to further advances, which from the discontent and discouragement among them did not seem probable. CHRONICLE.—Reports were current on Saturday afternoon of an extensive forgery having been discovered upon a firm which has latterly been conspicuous in re ference to a loan ; but we refrain for the present from entering into particulars, lest there should be some mis take, more especially as the guilty person is said to have filled a prominent position in that establishment. POST.—By the usual periodical returns of the Bank of England, it appears that the affairs of that corporation continue in a healthy condition, though it is evident that the Direction have been curtailing their business. Their stock of bullion has again diminished, which was antici pated from the late importations of foreign corn, but it will also be seen that the amount of the " Rest," or surplus profits, has considerably decreased. It appears by a com parison of the present with the former return, that the circulation of the Bank of England has been decreased in the sum of 459,0001., the deposits in the suit' of 378,0001., the securities in the sum of 844,000/., and the stock of bul ion in the sum of 98,000/. Tile Rest amounts to 2,661,000/., which is less in the aggregate than the last return by 105,0001. The circulation on the year is more by _556,000/., and the stock of bullion by 1,907,000/. ; the deposits and securities are also much, on the year, in proportion. HERALD.—In consequence of the easy state of the Money:Market there is not that interest taken in the returns of the quarterly average of the liabilities and assets of the Bank of England that is usually exhibited in times of mo netary pressure ; still this hoodwinked return of the Bank of England excites a certain degree of interest, because the public conceive that it is some check upon the proceedings of that powerful monopoly ; at the same time it is very problematical whether by this mystified return the Chan cellor of the EAchequer or the public are actually rendered much wiser as to the real state of the affairs of the Bank at the moment this return is rendered. By a comparison of the present return for the period between the 21st of Au gust and the 16th instant with the former return ; which refers to the period between the 24th of July and the 16th of October, we obtain the following results—anti their only merit is that they are derived from actual data, though not, like those of a Morning Contemporary, of a mere specula tive, and, by consequence, of a delusive character. It appears that the Bank Direction have reduced their circulation from 19,359,00)1. to 18,900,0001. on the aggre gate, thus showing a decrease of 459,000/. in that-item ; the deposits have been reduced from 9,327,0001. to 8 ,949,0001., which gives a decrease of 378,0001. ; the secu rities have been reduced from 22,015,000/. to 21,171,0001., being a diminution to the amount of 844,000/. ; whilst the amount of bullion at the command of the Bank has been brought down from 9,437,0001. to 9,339,000/., which is less than at the last return by 98,000/. The circulation on th e year is, however, more by the sum of 556,000/., whilst the stock of bullion is greater by the sum of 1,907,0001., at the same time the•deposits and securities have been pro portionably reduced, as compared with the same period last year. The " rest" amounts to 2,661,0001., being a decrease since the last return of 105,0001. So far as may be judged from the results derived from this specious re turn, it appears that the Bank of England Direction have continued to conduct their business in tile most cautious manner ; that they hays found equal difficulty with the rest of the monetary community to obtain profitable employment for their capital ; that consequently a mighty change must have been effected for the worse in the com merce of the country under the blessed influence of free trade doctrines, and the chilling operation of Peel's Bill, most effectively crowned in mischief to the industrial com munity by the kindly working of Satan's chef d'ceuvre, the New Poor Law. It is evident also that the state of the corn-trade, by its operation upon the exchanges, continues to drain the Bank of its bullion, though, under existing cir cumstances, that is yet not seriously felt. The next and last point of interest in this return is the great and in creasing diminution in the amount of the " rest," or sur plus profits, which must convince the Bank Proprietors that the days of monetary monopolies are fast wearing away, and that one most lamely managed is not the only eligible scheme for investment. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Nor. 17. MACK V. BUTLER. Thi s was a bill for a specific performance. The plain tiff and defendant are tradesmen at Colchester, in Essex. Butler, who was in partnership with the plaintiff's brother, finding things going wrong, assigned his stock in trade and debts to the plaintiff, his largest creditor, in trust for the other creditors and himself, to pay to them a composition of 15s. in the pound upon their several demands. A meet ing took place, at which Mr. Turnlcy , the solicitor, of Ipswich, put a deed before the defendant to be signed, telling him it was all right, and that there was no need of a solicitor to inspect the document. Butler, becoming employed Mr. Carter, a young gentleman, as hi s jealous, so licito solicitor, whom heinfected with his own suspicions, and who, attending the meeting, demanded a copy of the deed to settle for his client. Mr. Turnley did not send a copy of the same deed, but drew another, whi c h pro duced some very hasty expressions from M r . C arter, who refused to settle the other deeds, which was refused, unless the ex pen,„ o f preparing them were paid. Mr. Turnley de manded the execution of receiving deed, b u t receiving no an swer, and the deeds having been for three years in hand, he first threatene d and then filed the 'bill for the sp ec ifi c ' performance. The defendants endeavoured to cast reflec tions on the plaintiff's conduct, but f a il e d , and the Master of the Rolls, in granting the pray er o f t h e bi ll, said that this was a case which, through the indiscreet conduct of the defendants, cast a slur upon the Courts of Law. He ordered the deed to be sent before the Maste r f or his P probation, and that the defendant s h ou ld pay the costs -be tween attorney and client. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nor. 17. THE QUEEN v. GREGORY. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the time for showing cause against this rule might be enlarged to the first day of next Term. He founded his motion upon an affidavit which stated that the defendant did not know of this rule having been obtained until Saturday last, the 10th of this month, when the rule was served. That on Mon day morning he ordered from the proper ofacer copies of the affidavits read when the rule was moved, that he did not obtain such copies till Thursday afternoon, though the rule was drawn up for Friday, and that he was, therefore, quite unprepared to show cause against the rule at this moment. The Court would recollect that this was a case in which a rule for a criminal information had been obtained against the defendant on the application of the Earl of Sunderland, and that the matters referred to took place in Scotland many years ago. The plaintiff, therefore, sub mitted to the Court that time ought to be granted him to enable him to send to Scotland to inquire into these mat ters, and to procure affidavits to defend himself.—The Court refused the application. EXCHEQUER COURT, Nov. 17. HOWDON V. BARCLAY. Mr. TOMLINSON was instructed, on the part of the de fendant in this case, to move for a rule to show cause why the new trial, which had been set down fur the second sit tings in Term in Middlesex, should not be postponed till the adjourned sittings after Term. The action was brought for board, lodgings, and goods supplied. The defendant, in his affidavit, deposed that the declaration had been delivered on the 18th of October, the plea put in on the 10th of No vember, and issue joined and notice of trial given on the 12th. The goods, &c. which formed the cause of action had, in a great measure, been supplied to the wife of the defendant, and his defence was adultery on her part, com mitted abroad.—Rule granted. The other business before their Lordships was devoid o interest, and the Court rose at two o'clock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. James Blann, the driver of the cab 1,480, appeared be fore Messrs. ROBINSON and MINSIIULL, to answer the following complaint made by Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Registrar appointed under the Act for the Regulation of Public Carriages. Mr. Collincourt, who attended from the office of the Re gistrar-General, said that, upon the 6th of November, a man applied at the office for a renewal of a license. He in quired upon what grounds ? The man handed in a dirty card, and upon looking at it, he asked if the man who pre sented it was the driver of the cab ? He said he was not, and they might be —. He was asked for the license and badge, which he not only refused to produce, but was also very insolent. The defendant was not possessed of the forms which the law required, but he thought he had done all he was re quired to do by sending the notice he had by a friend. Mr: Collincourt—He was not only insolent, but after being told he must produce his license, he refused, and in sulted every person in the office. The Bench said they had the power to enforce a fine of forty shillings, or two months' imprisonment ; they would not go to that extent, but fine him 205., or one month's im prisonment. The defendant was then removed from the bar. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Charles Ackerley, an eccentric gentleman, whose " scientific efforts for the diffusion of (what be considers to be) useful knowledge," are not entirely unknown to the public, was on Saturday brought before Mr. CONANT, charged with having disturbed the residents of Davies street, Berkeley-square, by knocking and ringing too ri gorously, at the door of his lodgings, No. 42, in the same street. The landlady of the house had the misfortune to have the defendant for a lodger. All her support was what she derived from the rent received for her apartments, but such were the eccentricities displayed by Mr. Ackerley that she stood a great chance of being completely ruined unless she could get rid of him. The defendant occupied the front parlour, the window of which he had covered over with dials and absurd placards, thereby attracting the attention of passengers, and causing frequent mobs before the house. The defendant was also in the habit of addressing the mul titude from the window, and thus causing not only much annoyance to herself, but also to her neighbours. In addi tion to these unpleasant matters, the defendant was consi derably in arrears for rent, but this claim she would cheer fully forego if he would quit the house. Several tradesmen came forward and corroborated the complainant's statement. A shopkeeper opposite to the defendant's lodging said he heard the defendant, a morning or two back, haranguing the persons whom his freaks had assembled in the street, and assuring them, if they consented to be guided by him, he would put them in situations that they had never dreamt of. Mr. CONANT asked the defendant what be had to say in reply to the charge ? Mr. Ackerley wished to know by what authority be had been given into custody ? He had been giving a lecture in illustration of the wonderful dis coveries he had made concerning the dial, and while apply ing for admission to his lodgings, he was taken away by the police. Mr. CONANT asked the defendant if, after what had been stated by his landlady, he could, consistently with the cha racter and station of a gentleman , refuse to leave the house ? Mr. Ackerley answere that he had done nothing which required he should remove. He had made a discovery re pecting the dial. He had expended above eighty pounds in the matter, and as he was prohibited from selling his dials in the usual way, he was obliged to make a shOp of his apartment, where any one might come and make a pur chase. His landlady had complained of him, but he had a prior charge to make against his landlady. His room and bed had purposely been fouled over with turpentine. He could prove the fact. Inspector Beresford said Mr. Ackerley sent for the police, but he behavud in such a singular way that there was no knowing what to think of him. The defendant had a drawn sword, and he flourished it about, swearing that his apartment was his castle, and he would defend it to the last gasp. The Bench intimated their doabts as to the sanity of the defendant. The inspector handed over some instruments and books which had been found on the defendant. Mr. CONANT asked the defendant what a long piece o brass was intended for ? The defendant replied that the brass instrument was the universal yard standard. He was one of the Justices of the Peace for Gloucester, and by virtue of his office he bore one of the yards at her Majesty's Coronation. The circular instrument was the dial, which illustrated many extraordinary matters both mathematical and scriptural. A clear insight into the nature of these discoveries would be afforded by a look into the placard of his Friday night's lecture, and the book which he had published on the subject. On reference to the documents it appeared that the defendant had been enlightening the literati of the Milton street Institution on Friday evening with " A philosophical lecture on the wonderful discovery of the dial like unto that of Ahaz," demonstrating to the humblest capacity that a dial of his own invention, which he termed the Eco nomical Enchiridion, proved the infallibility of the Scrip tural similitudes of the ancients in the Bible—the sacred mysteries of religion—and the Divine attributes of the Supreme Being existing in and throughout the life of man. The pamphlet was equally recondite. It professed to prove that the " Enchiridion" explained all the religions in the world. The Bible, the Talmud, and the Koran were, by the aid of the dial, rendered equally clear and easy of comprehension. The author also under took to show that the principle of his wonderful dial contained not only the "cherished angle," or " bar of justice," but also " the rule plumb, or plymbob, of truth." He likewise made it manifest, beyond question, that Burns, the poet, was aware of the miraculous properties of the " Enchiridion," and that when he wrote the song, beginning, according to the author's orthography— " Shold auld ackentai;ceL4 forgot, i' the days of ueld Ling sync," the poet did not, as most people suppose, intend the stanzas as an eulogium on friendly reminiscences, but that he had his eye upon those mystic "plymbobs" which the dial so miraculously illustrated. Mr. ComArrr appealed to the learned lecturer on behalf of the landlady, observing that he felt reluctant to take any steps against him, and he would willingly consent to liberate him if a promise were given to leave the house. Mr. Ackerley would not make any promise, and was or dered to find bail. HATTON-GARDEN. William Pearson, an Irishman, was placed at the bar, charged with the following act of dastardly revenge. A man named Allen was in a public-house with the prisoner, with whom he bad some trifling altercation ; as he was going home the prisoner waylaid him ; and, going behind him, stuck a large fork in his skull, breaking the prongs off in the bone. After becoming almost frantic with pain, the complainant fell exhausted, and was carried to Middlesex . Hospital, where the pieces of iron were with great difficulty pulled out. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was fully committed for trial. HOP INTELLIGENCE--WORCESTER, Nov. 16. —We had little demand for new Hops on Saturday, the inferiority of the samples generally, have given the con sumers a bad opinion of them, and the rapid decline in prices that has taken place since the new crop came i n t o Market, has much operated against sales being effected even by the more needy purchaser. NVe have little alter ation in prices from those of the previous week, excepting in the low classes, which, when required, are more easily bought, and at less rates, The quantity of pockets weighed at the public sales on Saturday was 220 new, and 30 old, and 88 new, and 1 old, in the week. Prices per cwt. : Poor brown sorts, 50s. to 655. to 70s. ; fine, 80s. to 90s. Yearlings, brown, 635. to 70s. to 755. ;, fine, 80s. to 90s. ; 1836% 455, to 655. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST • t, - " """ p e oc. Wheat. ,ato. Beans. tos . Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to I s. a. s. 5 ‘ , 0 •• 75 42 —26 41 " Hexham 6 t 76 25 46 j 2s 38 111,)rpeth 56 72 30 22 24 38 49 42 Penrith —7) , —3; I 30 53 Shettielel 75 -38 28 4 7 Winchester 64 77 27 110 20 25 42 45 . 1 •', s cr. Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. d. 8.41. 5.41. g. d s„" i i 0 Carmarthen....—.... 0 98 00 40 00 44 00 fiteP Cosvbridge 80 00 00 46; 00 316 56 00 00 00 Newcastle (Staff.) 9 8 10 9 3 6 4 0 3 0 3 6 5 0 5 3 0 ,, 2 0 5 Northallerton......" 90 103 36 46 33 40 56 60 , v n v 0 0 90 19 6 40 48 30 34 60 67 0 Swansea 90 00 4 8 5 26 3C 00 00 0 0 00 Warwick 9 11 03 0 46 2 0 3556 6 ° 90 Per 8011. 1 ° Barnardeastle....— 14 0 22 0 1 8 0 93 7 0 8 9 0 12 0 is 1 0 ; 0 Durham 14 0 2!6 70 80 5 3 7 10 0 0 :s, 9 Richmond 180 210 70 90 50 80 90 11 0 u `,; E •Ivr•lrftsrt Ana tea wn n n f: nn I 11 0 Sheffield 75 - 38- 26 Winchester 64 77 27 30 ,20 25 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. d. 8.41; 5.41. s.d Carmarthen...—. 0 0 9 8 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 4 Cowbridge—. 80 00 00 4(i 00 3to Newcastle (Staff.) 9 8 10 9 3 6 40' 3 0 3 6 Northallerton 9 0 10 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 90 19 6 40 48 30 34 Swansea 90 00 46 56 26 3C Warmer -- 9fi 11 0 3 0 4 6 2 0 3 Per 8011. Barnardeastle...... 14 0 22 0 8 0 9 3 7 0 8 9 9 0 12 0 Durham 14 0 2!6 70 80 5 3 7910 0 110 Richmond 18 0 21 0 7 0 9 0 5 0 8 0 9 0 11 0 176 18 6 9 0 9 9 7 6 80 76 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET —Nov. 16. 75 , , 'neat Red, Norfolk and Suffblk —s. 70, to 741 fine Lin. and Cain. - -- Yorkshire 684 —s. to 73i. fine Vifhite ----- Foreign, tied —s. —s. to fine White —s. —s. to —s " ne 404. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --- Lincolnshire 'Zs. to :35s fine --- Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, Small ---- to Tick Oats, Potatoto • --- Poland —s. 26i. to 293, fin e Friezland and Sinal! 4 248 0 0 i • Stan' Mealing Shelling a d . Malt 3li. to 33s Od. per 40s fine 426. pe r ask IA Rapeseed —l.os SO'. Os. Os. Per * SCOTCH MARKETS. i y a ioe g. Wheat. tsarley. oats. Beans - ..:::„...--"". 45 ---- 41 to 4 0 4.lserdeen 75 to sr 26 to 30 '24 to 27 —to -- Barwick 43 55 13 22 91 17 18 90 --- _, Coldstream - ' Cupar (Fife' 4B 65 26 31 18 22 22 '26 --* ••• Dundee 4B 98 30 33 20 25 30 31 Elgin .... Inverness 62 70 tle. 22 25 26 132 3 , - Kelso .. : Kirkaldy Perth ia . . Thy: bIZ- of the measure varies throughout the country' HADDINGION CORN MARKET.—Nov. 16. Brivis• Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Pease. 1 ~, 03 First Bls Od 41s Od 51. 6al 46i 04 t . 4 pd Second 72a Od 27s 01 25 Od —5 od 1 1 6. <0,1 Third f6l . 0d :',2a 6d I 21s 61 I—sol I S, Average DALKEITH CORN MARKET.—Nov. 15 Bea st. I Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. tease. 11" , 01 First BCs Od 403 tid 2fii 0,1 4ss 0.1 oi Second , 72s Od 31s Od 21s Od 44s 04 44s 0 , Third . 1 50s Od 22s 01 16s Oil -- 01 EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—N.v. 15 lo vie re We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to.day, and theta rather quick. Pease. I l e t fi l d „ Wheat. Ba c ;ley. , Oats. I ca i fils. Od. 4 s. Od. 82s 01. 4' s• 45 74 0 31 0 2.; 0 45 0 42 61 0 32 0 20 0 42 0 . age price of Wheat 3/. lis. Sd. PRICES OP PROVISIONS, AC. Oi' I• I° Beef, per lb. .........., Os. Id. to 06.7 d. FreshEtutter,lls.......s.lo, • 0" 41 Mutton —.................. 04i 0 7 Salt Ditto..--...... 0:0 p 4 O A Veal OSi 1 0 Ditto, per ci% t....-84 ! I u P0rk........--......... 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per d0z..... 0 0 16 ° 0 Lamb, per qr. ....... 2 0 3 6 OatStraw(kis .).......12 0 0 fallow, cwt........ 44 0 41 0 Wheat Ditto .........10 0 1 3 0 2uartern Loaf ....., U 9 010 Barley Ditto ~..,,10 0 1)0 Potatoes, 141 b. ....... 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 5t....,....-- 0 9 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—Nov. 13 oi J r" There was a middling supply of oatineal at this day' s marke t, a sales were rather heavy. ler Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 4 0 First ( Szcond ditto Birleymeat .. - 0 .I cs. Peasenseal . 1 11 0 Peasemeal . ............... ••• j ii,.. o t'ot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 123.-11 , 148.-3 d , 16 —4th, ISs.--r e GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Nov. 14 A moderate business doing in Gro at s e t prics steady. s. d. fl u Wheat,2•loib. 'S. d. mi. d per 0410 At 0 to,o British, old 4lO to 43 0 1ri5h .. ..... •••• ' ,''' ..... • •••• , 2 1 --..... new Canada, free 3O 041 0 Beans, per 960 ..... 1 b. ,1:1016 ) ; ,a; 11 Irish Barley, per 3901 b. Scottish English 3O P 33 0 Pease, Scottish .. ••• 7 - ci , a 0 7 0. Scottish 27 0 29 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b.... ..- 0 Irish First Second Third Ave CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) 1 _,.........% ' zt • d• Barley. I Whez t. d. to .„ 9 0 s. d. to t:. d. s, d . to s d. 1. 0 P 0 0 Truro 0 0 0 12 0 -- - 0 0 5 ,i Helstone , St. Auste 11... Balm n 0 24 6 0 96 0 5 0 , Liskeard 0 22 0 — 0 96 0 5 0 Camelford Launceston Penzance. i24 0 26 0 0 11 0 -- " _ GARDENING OPERATIONS 11 THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's Gazette.) hod s Protect all growing shrubs, of small size, with bo bs , and mats or loose litter, and all seedling trees an d 5 if young. " All evergreens and American plants in pots silo % t he plunged up to their rims. Freezing the fibres throw hardy pots is about the worst thing that can happen even to 0.- shrubs Seedlin and g plants. „ r o• hybrid rhododendrons should always be tected, if practicable ; many will b e f oun d l e ss bard } ' may be expected from the nature of the seed. st'j Dung and dress nursery grounds where young t rees shrubs are to be placed. c u " Clip hedges intended to thicken ; and, if P utib ' them pretty low down ; they will branch the better.oo, Weed gravel walks, and keep them, as well as free W from dead leaves. • ao' Wherever trees of any size, to be affected by 01, , dir planted out, securely stake them, that they may 0' t urbed. Kitchen gardens and houses as before. NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWA Y `"fti' PAN Y.—A special general meeting of the shareboldergoio• Company was held on Tuesday, at th e City of London 10, to take into consideration an agreemen t which / 139 be d Ih ng o e f tered into between the Di rec t ors o f thi s Compani B ; OP of the Eastern Counties' Company, for effecting a I - the two lines by means o f a b ranc h ra ilway, run n ia - c ottir; Tottenham Mills on the one line to Angel-lane on mee t H. G. Ward, Esq., M. P., w as i n th e Chair, and the l i or tborj was very numerously and respectably attended. Tb i _ e •Are t rj be and Eastern Railway runs from London to Catne ll— bUt '- the terminus originally proposed was at Islington; at e c o : expense of constructing the portion of the line fre rn th 01 1111 11 to Tottenham Mills would have been nearly half va le sterling, owing to the nature of the country and tur e o ere. 3 'i property which must have been purchased by th e j h Oa t ; ; The terminus of the Eastern Counties' line is at '2 ° 14, 0 ) 0 within a few minutes' walk of the centre of busin e , s- N s orn -r e• agreement between the two Companies secures to tne o be e 0 and Eastern a full participation in all the benefit! I t elY /e rr ' rived from so excellent a site, and this at a cost' ..13(ii"theAnbe than would have been incurred in carrying into een e fe lki,d. ginal design. The particulars of the agreement sy d n ' a doP re fore the meeting and unanimously approved of an that _fltvife. One advantage arising f ro m thi s a rran gement is , t rori; o e will be one railw a y th e l ess t o p ene t ra t e into the 11 / 4 - t ern The works upon th e p or ti on o f th e nor thern and earr between Tottenham Mills and Broxbourne are ui ° e l elll great spirit. Nearly 11 miles have already been cor3Pdenteciop an average cost of 12,0001. per mile, a sum unP,ll,„ ec ra c 14° I/ small. It is expected that the line will be opened 'l - Sawbridgeworth early in 1840. a g e t On Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, , 3 , s ev .ir, e , e y ' tleman was driving a horse and gig along Berrnolluoli-,gill contiguous to the Greenwich Rsilway, and as b ee t, a Pram ing under the arch where the line crosses the st re lho n:g11 of carriages passed, and the animal, alarmed bY,,,„ tb o9 , - te , of the machinery, and seeing the unwieldy v erY the iron railings, took fright and darted up at over 8 0 01l In his progress he knocked down a poor old ty olnal to injuring both very severely, especially the latter, t h e, i l h e iele of her arms fractured, and was much cut abou t , t he e A ;1 0 The animal continued its course till the wheel 01,,, 0 0 came in contact with a lamp-post, when it was t"' br ° ' c• gig was ai and was much cut. One of the shafts of the se v er - sp o t and the gentleman himself had a narrow escape. the cidents of the same kind have recently occurred at in question. Just published, to be had Gratis, , DO , 00 NEW MUSIC.—A Quantity of MUSICAIAr sa iep: o oo. playing upwards of 400 Airs, Overtures, &c., being f o icalatt of the Music is now published ; also the prices of the Dl be had qi,ert The List can be sent by post, as a single letter. 31a Y wateW e et) . from T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmithe,, &c., 47. Cox nhill, Lond on ( S even D oors from Grace " gr/' ------=--- B I R TR S. On the 14th inst., in Que en -square, St. Jarnes ,s park, f 4' Standidge, of a daughter, still born. S • 113d°sc' O, On the 15th inst., at Hackney, the lady of C . F co of On the a daughter. of 3 to o, 15th inst., at Hornsey, Mrs. F. S. Danve, Le 13 0 " In Craven-street, on the 15th inst., 3lrs. H emel " ' _......./- a daughter. 110 ' .../ 5 1. i ' lite r MARIED At Bishop Wearmouth, Durh R am r . the 14 t h ins; ; da,,t l F,l, or Masterman, Esq., of Wan s t ea d, Es;ex o ,.to Isabell a, e'''' a r '. of the late William Dobso n , Esq., of Cressw ell House, ° e o pts WOn earmouth. belt* 11r• the 15th inst. at Camberwell Church , 111 r. Pc', ter °f' Cloak-lane, Cheapsid e , L on d on , to Sarah, seco nd d3uPI wriglit: John Dafforne, Grove -terrace, New Peckham. Job , ' ' peg" _On the 15th i ns t. at Christ Church, JamesSurreyT Esq., of Hunti ng d on , t o L ou isa, third daugh ter of I,cocic of Charlott e - s t ree t, Blackfriars- road. ~ 0 . e 3, I li OnthelsNtNhraliknesrt, Es q William D lED. :51e, Esq'' At Leamington, on the Bth inst , Henry Eat v " -ondon, aged 59. •• i On the 16th inst , in Newman street, A. Joy, E,%* peai aill'' On the 16th inst., in Tavistock-square, age d e`'''' a i iir Wood, Esq., of the Stock-Exchane. no t all , 5 47 0 On the 1 ith of August last, at Bangalore, Lieute ..._ fan tr) , vet Captain H. E. C. O'Connor, of the 32d Native Pi , se, of the late Captain O'Connor, Royal Navy. a rk, a g e° t C w ' On the 4th inst., at Elm Villa, Twickenham P f GrO Mary, daughter of the late Michael Bush, Twickenham mond-street. ..,P l° Q; London: Printed and Published il 11 by AIUDO Y 9 g trend, 1P `,. tbe 112, .Strand, at The Sun Office, N 0,2, S of Bhddesex.—Mondsy, November 19, 1838.